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Moe's Café: 48 Decidedly Different Creative Writing Prompts
Moe's Café: 48 Decidedly Different Creative Writing Prompts
By Mark Larson and Robert S. Boone
This book is filled with standards-based creative writing prompts, which are classroom-tested and designed to enhance students' creative writing skills. Moe's Café provides lessons and activities to reinforce and develop skills defined by the National Council of Teachers of English for students in grades 6 to 12.

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Everything you need to teach a full or partial unit on Animal Farm Help your students dive into the modern relevance, m...

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National Poetry Month Themed Packet for High School

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Juan's New Job

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Students recall a time when they were in an unfamiliar place or situation, and then write a story about it.

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Students are asked to make a list of their role models and then choose one to write a short story about.

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